On 7/28/2012 10:27 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
On 07/25/2012 12:10 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Reindl Harald
> <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net <mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Am 24.07.2012 19 <tel:24.07.2012%2019>:39, schrieb Richard
> Vickery:
>> Why do you need to reboot? What are you doing at power-off that
> you need to hang around and wait for it? If a
>> portable computer, just close it, pack it away before the lights
> go out, and walk away? and is a minute and 38
>> seconds really SO important? If this minuscule amount time is so
> important, you could retire and get more of your
>> minute and a half.
>
> strange argumentation
>
> it does not matter WHY someone reboots a machine nor is not reboot
> a solution for any problem
>
> rebooting a remote-machine after updates which is not important
> enough to set up remote KVM as example is not funny if you have to
> wait a long time without feedback
>
>
> My point here is taken out of out of its context: it was not
> rebooting I was concerned about, but that the world is not going to
> end in a minute and a half. Included in my concern were many
> things: one was to get someone with more knowledge than I to help
> this gentleman - I have stated before that I am a political
> scientist, not a real one (sorry if I offend any other political
> scientists here, that is not my purpose); another concern is that
> when I used MS stuff, I was concerned and fearful about a longer
> wait periods because of their crashing occurrences, and in Linux
> waiting is no big deal because Linux does what it is supposed to do
> versus MS Windows which teaches an individual to freak out when the
> computer does something like that in question; another concern is
> that I am, and cannot un-become over-night, nor would I want to, a
> qigong master who doesn't worry about time - and this is why mine
> is, as Harald says, a "strange argument"; everything the qigong
> practitioner is, is strange to those who don't practice.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
I too would be concerned with a long shut-down time.....only because,
as stated before when using Windows the longer an application or
computer takes to shut down could mean all KINDS of things are taking
place that are unknown to the user. From viruses and trojan files
being installed......to the hard drive being deleted a byte at a
time. If there's one thing I've learned to do with Linux it's that
every two weeks I run BleachBit and this seems to keep my system
pretty fast. Shutdowns and startups are quick, and free of glitches.
I'm running Fedora 16 on a 32 bit 3GM memory laptop and for what I
need it to do....it's pretty fast. I'm in the process of upgrading my
hardware to 64-bit, and I'm wondering just how much more of an
increase in speed that will give my system, when I go to Fedora
17.....and this is in addition to making sure my Firewall is on and
working!
EGO II
"the longer an application or computer takes to shut down could mean all
KINDS of things are taking place..."?
Really? References? Documentation? Facts? Instead of 'What I think I
know' and can not prove.
--
David